NewsWhore
03-12-2010, 05:30 PM
Corruption in the security forces is the great shared evil that threatens respect for human rights in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, according to a report from the United States government. The document, which analyzes the human rights situation in the world each year, and sums up the human rights issues in both countries, highlights yet again the burden of institutional corruption.
In the case of the Dominican Republic, the report complains of corruption in the Police and its practices, ranging from murders to cases of torture, discrimination and violence against women and Haitian immigrants and the denial of Dominican nationality to children born to illegal Haitians in the DR.
Specifically, the security forces were "implicated in many unjustified and illegal homicides", and "in excesses in the use of force", although there were over a hundred fewer deaths of this type compared to the previous year, going from 455 to 346 people.
Moreover, although some observers agreed on "improvements in professional training conditions" of the agents, the "physical abuse of detainees" continues, especially through beatings. Other human rights violations are the inhumane and violent conditions that exist in the prisons, where, despite the creation of new facilities, very crowded conditions persist.
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In the case of the Dominican Republic, the report complains of corruption in the Police and its practices, ranging from murders to cases of torture, discrimination and violence against women and Haitian immigrants and the denial of Dominican nationality to children born to illegal Haitians in the DR.
Specifically, the security forces were "implicated in many unjustified and illegal homicides", and "in excesses in the use of force", although there were over a hundred fewer deaths of this type compared to the previous year, going from 455 to 346 people.
Moreover, although some observers agreed on "improvements in professional training conditions" of the agents, the "physical abuse of detainees" continues, especially through beatings. Other human rights violations are the inhumane and violent conditions that exist in the prisons, where, despite the creation of new facilities, very crowded conditions persist.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)